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Black Protests in the US, 1994-2010

November 30, 2021 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Research on protest & social movements, Social Movements

Although many discussions imply nothing happened between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter, we find that Black protests in the 1990s and 2000s seem continuous with what came later.

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Racial Disparity in Wisconsin Felony Sentences

February 18, 2021 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Prosecution, Wisconsin

Columnist Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel broke the news last week that Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack has been sitting on a year-old study that showed a clear pattern of racial disparity in Wisconsin prison sentences. Specifically, the study shows substantial racial differences in the likelihood

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Debunking Myths about the Civil Rights Movement

October 14, 2020 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Book Reviews, Social Movements

Jeanne Theoharis. A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History (Beacon Press. Kindle Edition) [E]ven those civil rights heroes we recognize today were reviled in their day and made to feel crazy. Today’s lamentation—that we need another King—misses the fact that we have many

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When the NYPD Rioted

July 18, 2020 Pamela Oliver Police, Social Movements

(updated March 4, 2024 to include quotations from Black newspapers & December 6, 2024 to include a citation to a 2021 article in New York Magazine about the riot. ) In New York in 1992, about 10,000 off-duty police officers and their supporters protested and about 4,000 of them rioted

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Resisting Repression: Black Lives Movement in Context

June 4, 2020 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

The huge wave of protests against police violence that is happening this week has new features tied to the current moment, but is grounded in a movement that has been building for decades. Its direct ties to the Black Lives Matter protests of 2014-2016 should be obvious, but that movement,

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Methods of Jail Data Collection and Rapid Turnover

May 27, 2020 Pamela Oliver Jail

Pamela Oliver, PhD in collaboration with Eric Howland Local activist groups such as Madison’s MOSES are concerned about reducing the number of people in jail. As part of this effort, activists use technology to automate the collection of public data to monitor local authorities. Eric Howland has been collecting data

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Dane County Jail Downsizing

May 27, 2020 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Jail, Wisconsin

Dane County Jail Downsizing: How was it accomplished and who was still in on May 9, 2020? Link to PDF version of this report Author: Pamela Oliver, analyzing data collected by Eric Howland. Data source: Scraping daily web reports of Dane County Jail. In custody status as of 6:30 a.m.

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Why are People in the Dane County Jail?

December 16, 2019 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Jail

December 2019 This report is my summary of the August 2019 “Analysis of the Dane County Jail Population” written by James Austin, Roger Ocker, and Wendy Naro-Ware of the JFA Institute (note1). The JFA report concludes that the best way to reduce the jail population is to speed the processing

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Long-term prisoners

July 10, 2019 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

There is a great deal of discussion about the best ways to reduce mass incarceration. One topic that has received significant attention is the need to revisit parole for people who have been incarcerated for a long time. Some argue on moral grounds, that there should always be hope, and

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Black Men and the Politics of Redemption

October 1, 2018 Pamela Oliver Book Reviews, Drug War, Police, Racial issues

This is a long review of a book I highly recommend, Nikki Jones‘s  The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption University of California Press (2018)  so let me begin by highlighting the material that struck me most vividly. This is the first piece I have read that

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